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Heat pump dryers are supposed to be gentler on clothes, even allowing for the extra drying time, because of the lower drying temperature. With no heater, they are also much less of a fire risk. There have been quite a number of vented and condenser dryer fires in the UK in recent years, a large...

There was a bout of instances in the UK of Indesit & Hotpoint machines rapidly self disassembling themselves, reported about on BBC's Watchdog, some years ago, which lead to a product recall of some models. The drum was apparently unwrapping itself at the seam on spin, I'd guess they'd found a...

Here's a russian video of a bearing change of a 4 year old W6098 Asko showing a frontal view of the insides. I was seriously tempted to get the Asko Stainless steel W6098 when I saw it on offer for £600 (about £1,400 off) on Hughes and marks electricals, and saw the details of the...

While UK voltage is officially 230V +10% / -6% at 50hz (so 216v - 253v), our power supply has not really changed, and is still more likely to be around 240v and within (+ / - 6%). 230V is really just a nominal figure for the sake of EU harmonisation. New appliances are expected to be designed...

That's gross, I would be checking the plumbing of the waste pipe, because that looks like the aftermath of back syphoning of dirty wastewater from a sink.

According to the webpage linked below, the EU determine the amount of detergent residue by measuring UV absorbance of a sample at specific frequencies. They of course use an expensive machine, although I suppose it might be possible for someone with a bit more electronics knowledge than me, to...

You can get high current din rail energy monitors, some with wifi that can monitor and switch the power on and off via an app. But, if you buy a cheap chinese one, it might be advisable to mount it in its own separate steel din rail box, although that might affect the affect the Wifi range...

While power cuts are extremely rare here, with our high electricity prices, it can be worthwhile getting a "solar" battery and inverter, to charge up off-peak, on cheap rate electricity and power the house during peak rate, and you can calculate the payback time more accurately than for solar...

You could just weigh a load of 100% cotton towels dry, with an accurate set of digital scales - fishing scales, or luggage scales, then give the same load a rinse and spin in each machine, weighing it again at the end of each spin, and use the difference to the dry weight to calculate the...

I would also try oxygen bleach, preferably one with TAED bleach activator in as it is stronger, but I would probably have hung it up outside to air it for several hours, before washing it. If the oxygen bleach fails I'd be tempted to try washing it with a small amount of either anhydrous citric...

One thing that particularly amazed me was that somewhere in china, a factory churns out fake 3 core flex using substandard (non-copper) conductors, with an empty earth sleeve, as if it is going to fool anyone, for the sake of saving a small amount of cheap aluminium. Mind you seeing as we are...

Yes, there's some pretty terrible electrical stuff that crops up on the likes of amazon and ebay uk sites, despite our regulations. Here's a good example of a mains extension, for the shear number of breaches of British Standards and CE regulations, I think they may have been trying to break...

I consider this to be about the worst controls I've seen on a machine sold in the UK, it's a candy 🤮tumble dryer. I guess the symbols avoids making a different version for each country they are sold in.

The plastic case may contain bromine if it is ABS, to inhibit flame. Here in the UK, both figure '8' cable and wire nuts are not permitted for mains use. I had a bedside lamp with figure 8 cable when I was a kid and I noticed the wire had got wrapped in one of the castors, which stripped about...

A rechargeable torch, that switches on when the power goes off, might be more useful, preferably one with a motion detector so it doesn't wake you up. I think we last had a power outage in the 1990s, when the transformer/substation that powers the estate, broke down. I was told by a neighbour...

He should have had it dragging its drain hose as well, and maybe detergent foam running out of the draw.

Length of the vent hose / duct?

Here's one off for a walk and it is not even house trained.

Auto dry is one of the features I really like on my tumble dryer, it's the sort that uses an extra thermistor to try to determine moisture content, I rarely use it on timed dry, only when there's not enough time to fully dry the wash before the end of the cheap rate economy 7 electricity...